Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953)

Older Brother, Younger Sister 1953 In Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruses adaptation of an oft filmed popular novel by Saisei Muro, the eldest daughter Machiko Kyo of a rural family comes home pregnant, testing some already tenuous family bonds Naruse shows his considerable skill at portraying household dynamics, filming Kyo in relaxed andor reclining positions indicative of her characters exhaustively maintained independence that are then intruded upon by her ill tempered older brother Masayuki Mori, whose initially comic, brute force presence grows increasingly menacing and treacherous as the film progresses